A United Nations forum will have some regional voices in New York next week.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy and Deputy Grand Chief Les Louttit will participate in the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues April 19. The two week forum advises the UN Economic and Social council on indigenous issues on education, health, human rights, culture and social and economic development.
The theme of this year’s forum is development with culture and identity under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which passed in 2007.
Canada, along with the United States, New Zealand and Australia, voted against the declaration.
